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Their show is relentlessly in character. Festus gives his goose call. Doc up and says, "My cousin's so tall she hunts geese with a rake." The delivery is always slow-motion ("You can't Bob Hope 'em," says Stone) and fair-circuit clean. About as daring as they got at the Indiana State Fair last week was the routine in which Festus reported, "I've got 'seenus' trouble." "You mean sinus," corrected Doc. "No," rejoined Festus, "I was out with a pretty little girl last night and her husband seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Gold in Them Thar Hills | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

Pussycat is about as organized as a "happening." The loose plot concerns a young rake who is perplexed at his Don Juan complex and seeks the aid of a sex-starved pyschoanalyst. The analyst, played by Peter Sellers, believes in "group therapy," which means orgies. The final orgy, held at a small chateau just outside Paris, includes everything from timebombs to Ursella Andress...

Author: By Daniel J. Singal, | Title: What's New, Pussycat? | 7/22/1965 | See Source »

...Summer School will get a sample of "teach-in" style political discussion Wednesday, when 12 speakers will rake the Johnson Administration over the coals in an all-night discussion in Sanders Theatre. The speeches start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12 Will Lecture At 'Teach-In' | 7/12/1965 | See Source »

...like my privacy as well as the next one, but I am nevertheless compelled to admit that government has a right to invade it unless prohibited by some specific constitutional provision." Finding no such specific covering privacy, Black, who is often accused of scorning "judicial restraint," proceeded to rake his brethren for imposing their subjective feelings on a legislature. Should the court continue this "shocking doctrine," said Black, it will wind up as "a day-today constitutional convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Emanations from a Penumbra | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...action tumbling in and out of mirrors, closets, mantels, trap doors. And sneaky camerawork by France's formidable Henri Decae imbues the décor with glittering menace. As the ne'er-do-well whose passions surge at the drop of a bank note, Delon is a rake smoothly handled by Temptress Albright and coltish Actress Fonda, who comes through as a sort of cheerleader turned femme fatale. Together, they make Joy House as sportive as a carnival crazy house, brimful of absurd surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Through a Looking Glass | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

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